The 7th Interantional Conference On Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS'03) will be held at La Martinique, France, during December 10-13, 2003, and is co-organized by the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, La Martinique, France and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

OPODIS covers many aspects of  distributed computing and systems, from theory and specifications  to design and implementation, including distributed algorithms, communication and synchronization protocols, security issues in  distributed computing, applications of distributed computing,  peer-to-peer communication, cluster and grid computing, and more. For more detailed information, see the call for papers below.

OPODIS has been successfully organized for 6 consecutive years, with an acknowledged interest world-wide. Every year it attracts participants from all over the world, experts in the field, to present their work or simply attend the conference program. Its program is composed of high-quality contributed and invited talks by experts of international caliber in the scientific areas of OPODIS.

• Important dates
• Submissions due by: September 2 (was August 29), 2003
• Notification of acceptance by: October 13, 2003
• Conference version of papers due by: November 7, 2003
• Camera-ready version of papers due by: February 9, 2004
• Call for papers
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• postscript
• pdf
• Committees
• (Submissions procedure) Submission closed September 2, 2003
• Accepted papers
• Proceedings:
• The proceedings of the conference will published by Springer Verlag, in the LNCS series, volume number 3144. The electronic version of the volume is now (040802) available. You may also want to check the corresponding link at springeronline. All participants will receive a hard copy of the volume when they are available as well.

• Invited keynote speakers
• Jo Ebergen (Sun Microsystems Laboratories)
• Neil Gershenfeld (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms)
• Maarten van Steen (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam)
• Tutorials
• Radio networks, by Christian Lavault
• Self-Stabilization: An overview, by Joffroy Beauquier
• Distributed computing and information security, by Roberto Gomez Cárdenas
• NOBLE: - a library of non-blocking synchronization protocols, by Philippas Tsigas
• Program
• Conference-site and Registration Information
• Local Information
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  - Transportation
  - Accommodation
  - Registration The registration procedure is open.
• More info on Martinique
• Previous OPODIS Organizations

Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane
Chalmers University of Technology
Springer Verlag - LNCS series (proceedings)
Canon Martinique
Microsoft Research
(ASF) ACM SIGOPS French Chapter
ARDTM (approval pending)
ARP-CNRS